!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seth's Lazer-Focused, Long-Winded, Lively List of Lab Lessons (BEL)

Howdy folks, My name is Seth and welcome to my BEL thread. I arrived on Sunday, but this is my first post here. I'm pretty excited to jump into boot camp. I have come with the goal to learn all of the things and then some. So far, progress toward that end has gone better than I could reasonably expect. Already in just 4 days we’ve really done a lot. Planting willow trees($100 holes), building junk pole fence, and working on the Hugelkultur beds have taken most of the attention. Check out some of these pictures, and follow along, maybe I’ll post again.

Hi Seth - thank you for sharing your experiences. I'm looking forwards to hearing all about what's going on at Wheaton labs!

(Welcome to permies!)

Glad to see a new boot on Permies!

Welcome Seth.

I hope to see more on your future work/projects at the lab here.

I merged your stuff with the following thread. I hope that is okay by you.

I’m kind of shocked at the rate of progress that things are happening here.Today’s projects included working on the Hugelkultur mound we are installing for GAMCOD, touring some more sites at the lab, watering newly planted willow trees, and hugel beds at base camp, bucking, splitting, and stacking firewood. And there was more that I’m just leaving out because the list was already too long. I also got to woo Stephen with my excellent tractor skills, and learned how to hit logs with a splitting axe. When I finally got a hit on the first dry log and the axe sunk through like butter with a satisfying crack, and following hollow thud of split wood on the ground. I made the connection of swinging an axe to that of a gold club. It’s one thing to see someone else do it. “Haha, you spend your free time hitting balls with sticks.”, but then you finally hit it right, hearing the crack, and see it soaring. “AHA THAT'S WHY PEOPLE SPEND ALL OF THE TIME ON THIS!”, this is the reaction I had to my first good hit today. I’m hoping it’s one of those skills that improves after I sleep on it, because I am looking forward to splitting a few more in the future.

P.S. If anyone know that bug or flower, let me know.

P.P.S. This post never finished uploading last night so, you get two today!